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Those pirates are dead. The Blues are in the playoffs. The Cardinals swept the Astros. And some people planned their Zombie Walk on the same day as when Christians celebrate Jesus' resurrection. What a weekend.
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I had predicted a tight race. Boy was I wrong. More than half of voters (55 percent) thought the guy who avenged his daughter's shoplifting bust by beating up the sales clerk who caught her was this week's biggest ass clown.
Cynthia Tiemann the mot...

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The other day, as we sat at our desk pondering these deep questions, a press release popped most providentially into our e-mail in-box. It read, in part, "Jamshid 'Jim' Hosseini has been rich and poor, Persian and American, Hindu and Buddhist, alive ...

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This just in from the Branson Convention and Visitor's Bureau...
America's favorite weatherman Al Roker is headed to the Ozarks this month to serve as the celebrity taste-tester for Branson's Great American Pie Show.
That's right! On April 25 Roke...

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The Wise Owl of the Modern Whig party.
Unreal is excited beyond all reason: The Whig Party is back! (These political Whigs, by the way, are not to be confused with either the band The Whigs or the other band The Afghan Whigs.)
Actually, the Whig...

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U.S. Fidelis sells extended auto warranties. The Better Business Bureau reports that in the past 36 months it has received more than 33,000 inquiries and
more than 1,100 complaints and reports expressing dissatisfaction with
the company or its servic...

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The current issue of Newsweek contains a short piece (no pun intended) (no, really) about circumcision -- or, more precisely, about the decline in circumcisions in the United States.
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The "pages" tend to stack up. Know what I mean?
Have you heard the news from AT&T?
The phone company wants to get rid of the White Pages -- those residential directories that land (like bricks) on your doorstep each year. A proposal before the ...

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"Moustache Madness" seized the Royale last Saturday. Bartender David Mueth, age 30, emerged victorious in the "Best Homegrown Moustache" category. Yesterday he slowed down with Daily RFT to reflect on these last few heady days.
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Defense attorney Chet Pleban is accusing U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway and St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce of prosecutorial misconduct. Pleban alleges that the prosecutors violated the court's rules of conduct when they spoke to the Post-...

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Tulip bonanza!
As you read this, the crab apple and redbud trees in Forest Park are positively bursting over entire brigades of tulips and daffodils. But according to the park's horticultural foreman, Alan Jankowski, you've only got about two wee...

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The doors aren't quite closed -- yet.
Since news broke yesterday that the low-cost health clinic just off South Grand would be closing, I've been able to contact two members of La Clinica's board of directors.
Board Chair Mary Ann Cook emphasi...